In {{Platform Game}}s, you'll often meet a monumental boss who's about as large as the screen and stands in the background layer behind the platforms, facing toward the screen. It'll typically [[StationaryBoss stand stock-still]] while swinging its GiantHandsOfDoom or using a BreathWeapon or something. You may have to engage in a small ColossusClimb to reach its WeakSpot, (often its [[BoomHeadshot huge, grinning noggin]]), but in all cases the body of the boss (with obvious exception of its weak point and attacks) is not a threat even if the game features loose CollisionDamage and your character is a OneHitPointWonder.

In 3D games, Background Bosses are a rarer occurrence due to the less obvious distinction between "foreground" and "background", but can still apply if the battle is fought at long range and it is (for whatever reason) impossible to actually close distance with the boss.

Due to the impressive difference in scale between these guys and everything else in the game, they are often the FinalBoss. As such, '''beware of minor spoilers''' in these examples!----!!Examples:[[foldercontrol]]

[[folder:[=2D=] and [=2½D=] examples]]* Flash game ''VideoGame/AbobosBigAdventure'' turns the NES Contra example into a BaitAndSwitchBoss, when [[Franchise/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtles Krang]] gets swallowed whole by a gigantic Franchise/{{Kirby}}, who becomes the true Background Boss.* ''VideoGame/TheAdventuresOfLomax'' has every boss like this. At the end of the first 3 worlds, it's airships shooting rockets at you. At the end of the fourth world, it's Evil Ed who causes bombs and boulders to appear on the stage.* ''AlienHominid'' has one of these for the penultimate boss.* [[GiantEnemyCrab Crabburn]] from ''VideoGame/ArcAngle''. It's so big that ''both the game and the player have to zoom out of the screen just to see the thing''. There's also the Sleeping Spire of the first stage, who [[HeWasRightThereAllAlong is part of the background]] in the second half of the level, and Highwayman, a bandit train-thing that attacks you from the background.** Quite a few {{Mini Boss}}es and bosses do this too, as well as [[spoiler: Xero-Fin in his final attack phase]].* [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_P06vRZfKRk&feature=related This Mecha Grunty boss]] in BanjoKazooie: Grunty's Revenge (or is this 3D?)* ''VideoGame/{{Battletoads}}'': The first boss also [[InvertedTrope inverts]] this with a boss-view cam. * In ''VideoGame/BinaryBoy'', there is a Skeleton Pirate which shoots cannonballs from the background, and there a Kraken boss in the next level (which doesn't actually attack you, but instead tries to squash you against the bulkheads by forcing the water level to rapidly rise up.* King Drool in ''[[VideoGame/{{Bonk}} Bonk's Revenge]]''.* ''Franchise/{{Castlevania}}''** ''VideoGame/CastlevaniaIIIDraculasCurse'' - Dracula's third form.** ''VideoGame/CastlevaniaSymphonyOfTheNight'' - Dracula as well.** ''VideoGame/CastlevaniaAriaOfSorrow'' - Balore and Graham's final form (similar to Symphony's).** Dracula's second form in ''Vampire Killer''.** Dracula's final form in ''VideoGame/CastlevaniaTheAdventureReBirth''.* Giga Gaia from ''VideoGame/ChronoTrigger''. [[FinalBoss Lavos]]' exterior is also too big to fit the screen.* ''{{VideoGame/Contra}}'' provides several examples:** The waterfall boss of the NES port of ''Contra''.** The Stage 3 boss of the arcade version of ''Super Contra'', and the Stage 7 boss of the NES version.** The stage 3 boss of ''Contra III''.** The stage 4 and 7 bosses of ''Contra IV''.** The stage 1 mid-boss of ''Contra Hard Corps'', as well as the bosses from both second stages.** The boss of Stage 2-1 in ''Contra: Shattered Soldier'' first attacks you from the background, then moves into your plane.* The final boss of the second ''Franchise/{{Disgaea}}'' ''VideoGame/PrinnyCanIReallyBeTheHero'' spin off game.** One happens later through the game. You finally catch the culprit and he uses his [[SummonMagic Summon Magic]] to call out the Elemental Dispatcher... which appears to be rather busy at the moment. Still, the fight ensues with the Elemental chatting someone on the phone while nonchalantly providing aid to your enemy. [[CrowningMomentOfFunny It's hilarious to watch since she is just as big as the castle you are in and she couldn't just be bothered to just finish the fight in an instant.]]* ''GameBoy VideoGame/DonkeyKong'': The absolutely very last fight with the ape involves him transforming into a very "kingly" foe.** ''VideoGame/DonkeyKong Jungle Climber'' features King K. Rool increased in size with the power of the [[MineralMacGuffin Crystal Bananas]].** Also, in the ''VideoGame/DonkeyKongCountry 2'' GBA port, you've got the boss Kerozene (added to K Rool's Keep/Stronghold Showdown as a boss). You can see it [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2PmJ0-rx_Ks&feature=player_detailpage#t=516s here]].*** And before any of those Squirt's Showdown in Donkey Kong Country 3.** Bleak from ''VideoGame/DonkeyKongCountry 3''. He doesn't take up the whole background, but he spends the entire battle back there as you basically have a snowball fight with him.** In ''VideoGame/DonkeyKongCountryReturns'', [[spoiler:Tiki Tong]] is one [[spoiler:up until you destroy his hands]].* In ''DrawnToLife: The Next Chapter'', the [[spoiler:Giant Robosa]] [[ThatOneBoss is partially this]].* ''DynamiteHeaddy'' - Spinderella, and Trouble Bruin in the flying level. Spinderella gets bonus points for putting ''you'' in the background for some of the time.* In ''VideoGame/EarthBound'', final boss Giygas ''is'' the background.* Every single villain in ''VideoGame/GIJoe''.* The giant Moai head in ''VideoGame/{{Gradius}} Rebirth''. In order to defeat it, you have to destroy the core when it pops out of the head and starts bouncing around, all the while dodging smaller Moai heads and the lightning that generates when the core hits the ceiling or floor.* ''VideoGame/HeartOfDarkness'' - The Dark Lord in the final chapter. You can't harm him, though, and once you beat the last of his shadowy spawn he politely exits the screen.* [[spoiler:General Tor]] of ''VideoGame/{{Iji}}'' jumps back and forth from foreground to back, with his most devastating attacks unleashed when he's in the background. He can only be injured when he's in the foreground, though.* Similar to the above, M.A.C.E. from ''VideoGame/{{Intrusion 2}}'' will jump into the background and fire out a huge laser and MacrossMissileMassacre spam, while immune to attacks... Unless he uses yellow missiles, [[TennisBoss which can be shot back at him to harm him]].* ''VideoGame/IWannaBeTheGuy'' - Both Mike Tyson and [[spoiler:The Guy's second form.]] Interestingly, Tyson is one of the first bosses you can fight.** When you traverse the NostalgiaLevel in ''VideoGame/IWannaBeTheGuyGaiden'', Bald Bull takes Tyson's place.* ''VideoGame/KirbySuperStar'' - Wham Bam Rock.** And in ''[[UpdatedRerelease Kirby Super Star Ultra]]'', [[spoiler:Wham Bam Jewel]].** Partial examples: Ado from ''Dream Land 3'' and Adeleine from ''[[VideoGame/Kirby64TheCrystalShards The Crystal Shards]]''. Both characters are [[ArtInitiatesLife artists whose drawings come to life]], and most of the battle is actually against previous Kirby boss characters that they summon while they hide behind their easels. Ado/Adeleine only come out to assault Kirby personally at the very end, at which point a single attack defeats them.*** Fatty Whale in ''VideoGame/KirbySuperStar'' can leap at you from way in the background to create a rising wall of water.** Come to think of it, many of the end-of-planet bosses in ''Crystal Shards'' do this (Adeleine is end-of-stage).** Every single boss in ''VideoGame/KirbyTripleDeluxe'' spends time in the background for some of their attacks. The final boss in particular remains like this for almost the entirety of the battle, exclusively using AttackDrones (Which are also what you need to attack) to fight you until the last phase.* ''VideoGame/{{La-Mulana}}'' - one of the last boss villain's slightly more disturbing forms.** Tiamat in the remake.* Belial, the [[DiscOneFinalBoss episode 2 boss]], from ''VideoGame/{{Lemegeton}}''.* ''[[VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaOracleGames The Legend of Zelda: Oracle of Seasons]]'' sees Link fighting the last [[note]]Unless your NewGamePlus has been HijackedByGanon.[[/note]] boss - a dark dragon - in a side-view arena, requiring him to leap onto the dragon's claws to slash at its head.* ''MonsterParty'' - the last boss.* ''VideoGame/MegaManX'' and ''X5'' have the last form of Sigma be one of these, with only the head and the two claws being foreground objects. ''X2'' and ''3'' pit you against similar bosses at the end of the introductory stage, though they're [[WarmUpBoss much less of an obstacle]].** Rangda Bangda, Sigma's second boss in ''X1'', ''is'' the background.*** Rangda Bangda is "revived" into a smaller, yet deadlier Boss in ''X5'', and Sigma's OneWingedAngel from the same game is also this; it's ''one of his largest forms in the series!''*** Rangda Bangda shows up again in ''VideoGame/MegaManZero 4'', although it's a lot smaller and mobile this time. Still in the background though.** Several bosses in the original series were coded as background objects, due to the limitations of the {{NES}} graphic engine, but the best example is probably Gamma, the final boss of ''VideoGame/MegaMan3''. Only the very top of its head was vulnerable (and only to [[ElementalRockPaperScissors two weapons]], and aside from its weak spot and its hands, it didn't inflict CollisionDamage.** ''VideoGame/MegaManX6'' features a background miniboss in Illumina, found in the Weapons Center. You spend much of the level dodging its attacks (and those of the enemies) while trying to reach and destroy two large power cables; destroying the second cable causes Illumina to self-destruct.* Many bosses in the ''VideoGame/MetalSlug'' series of games are of this type. ''Metal Slug 5'' had a rather awesome final battle in the form of a gargantuan flying demon wielding a scythe.* In ''MuramasaTheDemonBlade'', the final boss of the [[MultipleEndings standard ending]] to Momohime's story is a giant statue of the guardian of heaven, Fudo-Myoo. As two lesser deities try to attack you, you must disrupt the barrier protecting various parts of Fudo-Myoo's body by destroying the lesser deities. It's made harder by the fact that large rocks are constantly threatening to crush you and the two deities have some powerful attacks that they will happily unleash upon you.* ''VideoGame/NinjaSenki'' - the dragon boss at the end of Scene 8 behaves much like one.* ''NoituLove 2'' - Penultimate Tango.** Also in the first ''NoituLove'', the battle against the enormous Omega Darn. The battle takes place on a helicopter circling around the boss, and to defeat it you must fire super missiles at it while avoiding the rockets, lasers and lightning it shoots at you.* Mephistos from ''VideoGame/{{Purple}}'' goes this after [[MakeMyMonsterGrow growing disproportionally]].* The first boss of ''VideoGame/RType III'' would assault the player with shots in the background, coming into the player's plane of view to unleash a MacrossMissileMassacre.* HumongousMecha Coyote in ''Road Runner's Death Valley Rally''.* In ''{{Rosenkreuzstilette}} Freudenstachel'', [[spoiler:the first Iris Stage boss is -- surprise -- Count Michael Zeppelin, who attacks Freudia (and Pamela) from the background and serves as a BreatherBoss for ThatOneLevel. Oh, and did we mention the fight is similar to Gamma from ''MegaMan3''?]]* ''SeikenDensetsu3'' has Zolan, the werewolf, who is so large he dwarfes the tower which formerly held the mana crystal, his prison. Add to that his impressive claws and absurd special attacks and you can get ready to pack the healing magic out.* The first form of the Death Egg boss for Sonic in ''VideoGame/Sonic3AndKnuckles'' tries to crush you with his mechanical fingers.** Earlier on in the Lava Reef Act 2 boss, Eggman initially behaves this way by launching missiles at you from a distance until you reach the dueling point.* ''{{Spawn}}'' for the SNES has Malebolgia hanging around in the background, tossing lightning bolts as you fight the real boss, the Mad One. Fortunately, Malebolgia doesn't seem to care much if he hits you or Mad One and will damage him for you if you stay out of the way.* This actually occurs in a rather subtle way in ''VideoGame/SuperMarioWorld''. Bowser is actually not a sprite on the screen - it's rendered as part of the background, making him a rather meta example of this trope. * Lil Horn (Also known as the Meat Golem) in ''[[VideoGame/MeatBoy Super Meat Boy]]''. Unlike most background bosses, Lil Horn is surprisingly easy: he has the same attack pattern no matter what.* The Z-Master from ''Anime/GaoGaiGar'' in ''VideoGame/SuperRobotWarsW'' is laid over the background of the stage. The unit that represents him in battle is placed on the tile that is his eye.* [[TailsNightmare Tails' Nightmare 2]] has Tails Doll's final form. To hurt him, you have to fly up to his gem.* ''[[VideoGame/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtlesTurtlesInTime Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles IV: Turtles in Time]]'' [[InvertedTrope inverts]] this by featuring a Foreground Boss: Shredder manning a laser turret at the end of the Technodrome stage, with the battle presented from Shredder's point of view. The player defeated him by throwing his {{Mooks}} into the screen.* ''VideoGame/WarioLand'': [[VideoGame/WarioLandSuperMarioLand3 The first game]], ''VideoGame/VirtualBoyWarioLand'' and ''VideoGame/WarioLand3'' feature background final bosses - respectively, a GenieInABottle, [[GiantSpaceFleaFromNowhere another genie]], and [[spoiler:[[MonsterClown Rudy the Clown]]]].* VideoGame/TheWorldEndsWithYou boss Ovis Cantus can barely fit on the screen... and that's just because he's ''crouching''. However, he still swings his arms and fires energy spheres in an attempt to squash the player.* ''YoshisIsland'': Baby Bowser's amped-up magical form, as shown in the header picture. Unique in that he uses the powers of [[SuperNES SuperFX]] to slowly stomp toward the foreground, looming larger and larger. Also unique in that instead of a ColossusClimb or other attempt to exploit his large geometry, the fight consists of the two of you shelling each other (with actual eggshells, no less) over long background distances. You need to use the shells to knock him back, or else he destroys the platform you're standing on.** In ''Yoshi's Island DS'', Bowser [[MakeMyMonsterGrow turns into this with Kamek's magic]]. but this time, he's right in front of you and just breathes fire and knocks boulders on you.* The third-to-last boss of ''VideoGame/{{Gradius}} Gaiden'', the [[GiantMook Heavy Ducker]], occasionally swoops into the background and tries to assault you from there with shots.* Both of the Red Dragons you fight in the ''VideoGame/DungeonsAndDragons'' Capcom games are of this form.* The final boss of Super House of Dead Ninjas, Abargus, takes up almost the entire screen.* Walpurgisnacht at the end of the ''Anime/PuellaMagiMadokaMagica'' spinoff game ''Grief Syndrome''.* In the flash game ''Project Inthri 3'', the boss Nemor has 4 forms. In the third form, he becomes a huge background boss with two phases. The first phase consists of him trying to crush you with his fists, and the second phase has him firing bullets from his eyes and trying trying to hit you with lightning strikes. * Gallagher, the final boss in ''Super Valis IV'', starts off by launching some orbs of plasma at you from the background, before coming to fight you normally.* A very interesting example in ''VideoGame/CannonDancer'': while the FinalBoss Slaver is actually faced normally sized, there's also a huge image of her in the background ''and it actually'' performs the attacks against Kirin. This image is first seen fully, but as Slaver's health depletes, it starts getting closer and closer to the screen until only its angry face covers the whole background. [[/folder]]

[[folder:[=3D=] examples]]* The Dollmaker [[spoiler: alias Doctor Bumby]] from ''AliceMadnessReturns''.* The nightmare sequences in ''VideoGame/BatmanArkhamAsylum'' work this way, with a variant; you can't let Scarecrow see you, or it's Game Over.** Also, Poison Ivy.* Multiple bosses in ''VideoGame/{{Bug}}!''.** The giant horned lizard stayed in the background at all times, and you had to launch boulders at it.** The giant octopus would stay in the background, grabbing [[GrievousHarmWithABody fish and throwing them at you]] until you [[TennisBoss hit three of them back at him]].** The [[BigfootSasquatchAndYeti Abominable Snowbug]] would chuck massive snowballs from the background for the first half of the fight, and again when it threw massive snowballs that split into five.** [[BigBad Queen Cadavra]] would spawn baby spiders from the background, as well as fire at the floor with her ''eight machine guns'', before attempting to body slam Bug.* The bosses in ''VideoGame/{{Bully}}'' are the Clique leaders. For the Nerds, you do not fight him himself, as he obviously wouldn't be able to hold his own against someone like Jimmy, who has up to that point beaten up three whole cliques (And probably a few prefects if you're lucky enough). Instead, he uses his inventions to get you at range, so the boss fight is actually taking out his inventions to force him to surrender, having no weapons left.* ''VideoGame/CastlevaniaCurseOfDarkness'' Final boss is (surprise surprise) Dracula. His second form tends to stay very far away from your platform and shoots at you. The only way to damage him is to hit him when he [[InvertedTrope slashes at you]] with his claws.* In ''Videogame/CrashBandicoot2CortexStrikesBack'', the battle with N. Gin works this way.* Partial example: The Dark Element in DarkCloud2 sometimes materializes [[AttackOfTheFiftyFootWhatever much bigger than normal]] to sweep the arena with a laser attack.* The final boss of ''VideoGame/DeadSpace'' qualifies.** Also, the Leviathan, in the middle of the game.* The castle boss in ''VideoGame/DonkeyKong64'' is a wooden mockup of K.Rool held behind the castle's parapets. The only way to attack it is by launching your Kongs out of a barrel cannon.* The final boss of ''VideoGame/{{Doom}} 2'' could qualify to an extent. Rather than a sprite like other monsters in the game, it actually makes up one of the walls of the last chamber. Its attack method is to fire cubes at pre-determined locations, spawning monsters (which can {{telefrag}} you if you're not paying attention). The only way to win was to fire rockets through the small opening in his forehead.* The giant boss battles in ''[[VideoGame/DragonBallZBudokaiTenkaichi Dragon Ball Z Ultimate Tenkaichi]]'' function like this. You either have to throw Ki blasts at them when they are far away, or wait for them to do a melee attack so you can attack them directly.* ''VideoGame/ElShaddaiAscensionOfTheMetatron'' has the Fire Nephilim fought at the end of Chapter 5. Just like a normal Nephilim, but much bigger and much more dangerous. It's so big, Enoch cannot actually defeat it [[spoiler: it's eaten by a ''much bigger'' Nephilim that used to be one of the Watchers. Luckily, that one's not fought, it's vaporized in a cutscene]].* The first time you fight Sin in ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyX'', it's this. The boat that you're on is being dragged behind him by a harpoon in his fin, and it's impossible to touch him except with long range attacks (Wakka, magic, Aeons, etc.).* ''VideoGame/GobletGrotto'' plays with this in the fridge level: once you get to the top, a giant Goblet Man will appear in the background and say "I could do with a chilled toad right about now!", but he doesn't actually attack you. A regular-sized hostile Goblet Man does appear in the fridge, but he goes down as easily as everyone else.* The final boss of ''VideoGame/GunstarHeroes'' and ''Gunstar Super Heroes'' qualify, the second more so though as in the first game, The only time in the first game it goes into the background is when it uses the gems as weapons. Said Gems are weakpoints for both final bosses.* The second boss of ''VideoGame/JettRocket,'' Herzog Aisu, traps you on a narrow platform. You have to do a GroundPound on the giant flyswatter-type apparatus he attempts to squish you with to defeat him.* One of Xemnas's modes in ''VideoGame/KingdomHeartsII'' does this initially.** Ursula in ''Re: ChainOfMemories''.* The golem in ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfSpyro: Dawn of the Dragon'' is usually fought in this fashion--from his first encounter to his very last, where you have to climb several stories of building in order to finally bring the pain down on his massive hands.* Arguably, Bongo Bongo, boss of the Shadow Temple, in ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaOcarinaOfTime''.* The [[spoiler:first]] Grimnir fight from ''{{Magicka}}''. You can see a giant hologram of him while fighting the mages he summons. After that, he fights the player, mano-o-mano.* Technically speaking, in ''VideoGame/MarvelUltimateAlliance'', at one point, you are going through the Skrull homeworld. Being in space, who should be calmly striding through the background but {{Galactus}}. You fight him at the very end of the level, but during it, you have to dodge his attacks and minions.** And in the sequel, ''VideoGame/MarvelUltimateAlliance 2'', there's the 1 of the 2 Marvel resident Giant-Men (you fight one or the other, depending on who you sided with in the Civil War - going Pro results in you fighting Goliath, a.k.a. Bill Foster, whom the crazy Thor clone killed in the comics, while choosing Anti pits you against Yellowjacket).* The FinalBattle in ''VideoGame/MassEffect2'' is against a [[spoiler: giant incomplete humanoid Reaper who can only be harmed by shooting at one of its four weakspots]].** And if you do Grunt's loyalty mission, it ends with a fight against [[spoiler: a Thresher Maw]], which stays outside the arena and spits acid at you.** In ''VideoGame/MassEffect3'', on Rannoch, the quarian homeworld, Shepard discovers that what s/he originally thought was a Reaper base is an actual Reaper. S/he decides to sync up his/her orbital targeting with the entire quarian fleet to blow the Reaper to hell. The fight has the Reaper in the background trying to hit Shepard with its beam while you paint its weak spots for the quarian fleet to hit.** Also in the third game, another Reaper appears during the battle of Earth, guarding [[spoiler:the Conduit]]. It is far in the background, but slowly moves closer. Not long after, [[spoiler:Harbinger appears behind the Conduit, where it stays and destroys the entire alliance force. This is also a ScriptedBattle]].* The [[Anime/MobileFighterGGundam Colony Devil Gundam]] in ''[[VideoGame/GundamVsSeries Gundam vs. Gundam/Next]]''; its only vulnerable portion being the standard-sized torso mounted atop a giant Gundam head with a BreathWeapon. In addition to BeamSpam and throwing out lots of {{Assist Character}}s, it borrows from the 2D version of this trope and will occasionally summon gigantic fists to strike the map (though thankfully there is a warning indicator showing precisely where it's going to hit).* In ''VideoGame/RememberMe'', the final boss is large (6-10 meters) and will attack by hitting you with its hands, creating projectiles and summoning other enemies. It is not possible to close distance with him until the finishing cutscene.* In ''VideoGame/{{Scaler}}'', the pemiultimate boss fight against Captain [[InSeriesNickname Buttbreath, er, Bootlick, er,]] [[DrillSergeantNasty Bootcamp]] portrays his lizard-form as a giant Leviathan head in the middle of an acid lake. You're forced to avoid his fireballs, fire breath, and attempts to [[JustEatHim eat you]] while occasionally transforming into the acid-spitting Fruzard to shoot his eyes ForMassiveDamage.* The final boss in ''ShadowOfTheColossus'' starts out like this, requiring you to dodge his rain of fire as you find a way to close in and begin your last ColossusClimb.* In ''VideoGame/SonicAdventure2'', you fight the Egg Golem with both Sonic and Dr. Robotnik. The fight as Sonic is a good 3D example and features a ColossusClimb up retracting platforms on the Golem's back.* {{B|igBad}}owser from ''VideoGame/SuperMarioGalaxy2'', due to him spending the entire game as a giant.* The fourth boss in the PS2 game ''{{Transformers}}'' is Tidal Wave, a massive supercarrier that (before transforming into his robot mode) was [[HeWasRightThereAllAlong actually the very level you were exploring]].* ''VideoGame/WorldOfWarcraft'' has Kologarn, a giant construct with CognizantLimb and EyeBeams.** Deathwing spends most of the Madness of Deathwing encounter looking menacing in the background and not doing much else. The actual fight is based around destroying the [[CognizantLimbs tentacles he's holding onto the platforms with]] while [[FlunkyBoss fighting off the numerous adds he summons to stop you]]. It is only in the last phase of the fight, after all his tentacles are destroyed, that Deathwing's head falls into the player's reach and he becomes directly attackable.* Orjugan in ''VideoGame/{{Ys}}: The Ark of Napishtim''. To damage it, you must hit its bombs back or use the flame magic.* ''Ape Escape 2'' has Giant Yellow Monkey. The entire battle is fought on his hands, and you have to wait until he brings you close to his face, at which point he attempts to inhale you, and, if this attack is successfully avoided, becomes open to attack. His weak point is his teeth. Knock all 5 out and you win.* ''MegaManX7'' features a miniboss in Tornado Tonion's stage that follows you up the tower (he's in the center and you move around the outside of the tower), only his claws and head can hurt you and be hurt. Sigma's final form is an enormous body that's fought in space, with your characters on floating platforms. He teleports around and unleashes several varieties of projectiles both far away and up close, and has a rushing punch attack. X and Axl can shoot him at almost any distance, while Zero has to either reflect certain projectiles or wait till Sigma punches to score hits.* Gruntilda assumes this role for part of the final battle in BanjoKazooie, hovering outside the rim of the arena and throwing fireballs at you while you shoot eggs at her in four different spots.* FinalBoss Caduceus from ''VideoGame/{{Strider}} 2'' is fought in space while Hiryu stands in a small platform in the foreground. It requires Hiryu to do a ColossusClimb through either of its arms to reach its weak point, the head.** The 2014 ''Strider'' features two such bosses as well: The HoverTank "Tornado" remains always in the background as it peppers Hiryu with projectiles, becoming vulnerable only when it tries to ram him; and the FinalBoss [[spoiler:Meio Prime]] works in much the same way as Caduceus did, sans ColossusClimb.[[/folder]]